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enhttp://wshu.org/feeds/35/rss.xmlAmid Controversy, India's Reserve Bank Chief Announces Resignationhttp://wshu.org/post/amid-controversy-indias-reserve-bank-chief-announces-resignation
The move has sent shockwaves across India's financial sector: Raghuram Rajan, the governor of India's Reserve Bank who's been buffeted by political attacks, announced that he will be leaving.Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:23:00 +0000Julie McCarthy52232 at http://wshu.orgAmid Controversy, India's Reserve Bank Chief Announces ResignationBrutal Murder In India's Kerala State Spotlights Underlying Maladieshttp://wshu.org/post/brutal-murder-indias-kerala-spotlights-underlying-maladies
With near universal literacy and long life expectancy, the small Indian state of Kerala is a model for the rest of India.<p>In recent weeks, however, the small state tucked at the bottom of the country has been in the spotlight for what its glowing human development indicators do not reveal.<p>It sometimes takes an awful event to uncover maladies beneath the surface, and here, it was the savage murder of an underprivileged law student.<p>Monsoon rains pour down on the shack where 29-year-old Jishamol Kuttikkattuparmbil Pappu lived for more than two decades with her mother.Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:22:00 +0000Julie McCarthy52086 at http://wshu.orgBrutal Murder In India's Kerala State Spotlights Underlying MaladiesNarendra Modi Comes To Washingtonhttp://wshu.org/post/narendra-modi-comes-washington
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A drone buzzes a half-mile above the earth in the drought-stricken Indian state of Maharashtra. It's beaming back live video to photographer Raju Shinde. "I've been shooting this area for the last decade," he says, "observing the changes."<p>They are profound.<p>Not long ago, Shinde explains, the vast acreage where the drone is hovering was underwater: It was a brimming dam, the Bendsura Project. But after several years of drought the reservoir that once supplied water to the entire nearby city of Beed is now empty.Sun, 22 May 2016 11:54:00 +0000Julie McCarthy51006 at http://wshu.orgAre Indians Turning To The 'Supernatural' In Subterranean Search For Water?Amid India's Drought Crisis, Suicides Increase Among Farmers Deep In Debthttp://wshu.org/post/amid-indias-drought-crisis-suicides-increase-among-farmers-deep-debt
Tukaram Jadhav was barely surviving off of his tiny cotton farm when he killed himself last September. His widow, a petite mother of two, pulls her purple sari tightly around her, and says she discovered her husband as he lay dying.<p>"I was the one who found him. I was sleeping and woke up to the powerful smell of pesticides that we use to farm," Bhagyashree Jadhav says. She says she thought there had been a spill. "I asked my husband if he smelled it, then I realized he couldn't speak.Sun, 15 May 2016 11:58:00 +0000Julie McCarthy50708 at http://wshu.orgAmid India's Drought Crisis, Suicides Increase Among Farmers Deep In Debt